form. i just got back from michigan. they're upbeat. kelly services, which provides temporary services says they're seeing more hiring of temps going to permanent jobs. some numbers don't square. we have big problems overseas with europe and china slowing rapidly. that seems more around our neck than anything domestic. >> can we put that full screen back up, guys? the one over six months so people can digest what we're seeing from december of last year? as we look at this we can see a slow trickle down theory. what does this mean? is this truly a brick wall? will we see this accelerate? >> oddly enough, the unemployment rate came down because the labor force was shrinking and people were dropping out and not look r for work. the labor force got bigger, km is the reason the unemployment rate went up.

the real problem we're having is we're simply not creating jobs at a fast enough pace to grow the economy beyond 1.5% or thereabouts. >> okay, professor, it's great to have you with us this morning. from a political perspective, white house officials are saying that you can't judge this economy based on this one report. if we look at what everybody is talking about, the numbers are not right. they're not going in the right direction. what is the level of concern for bt obama, and can summer hiring make this a temporary glitch? can we see things back on course? >> there's no way of dressing this jobs report up as anything but what it is. and it's very disappointing. the white house is probably telling itself there are five months between now and election day. anything can happen. look back at last year. there was a job slump and things began to turn around. probably president obama and his

team are saying what really counts is after labor day, if things are moving in the right direction, then we have a pretty good chance. >> let's take a look at these pieces individually. how important the individual sectors are. >> some of the sectors, manufacturing and transportation are doing well. construction will have seasonal statistic ca statistical quirks. we had a very warm winter. they have to be remassaged because of the way in which the warm winter affected the data over that period. manufacturing is going in the right direction. that's good news. at the end of the day, this is not a policy issue. if the stock market drops much more, the federal reserve will come in with more stimulus. we have europe slowing our export growth. it's slowing china's export growth and raising the risk of a global recession. we're actually outperforming most other major economies of

the world. we do need some help in some way to get jobs growing again. i don't think anybody has a clear answer as to what that may be. bob may, but you know, i don't think there are a lot of policymakers putting forth anything to put the job rate down now. >> you say it's hard to dress this up. we saw an increase in the labor force participation. more people are jumping back in for work. is that the little bit of good news you can take? >> let's hope for every, and let's use every bit of good news. ron is characteristically upbeat. and that's great. what worries me is the trend in downward numbers of net jobs. more than 200,000 a month between december and february, now down to an average of 90,000 since march. also the average workweek is shrinking. when you see the shrinkage of the average workweek, that shows you employers are not optimistic about consumers coming in and

demanding more goods and services. actually, they are fairly discouraged. the private sector is sitting on almost $2 trillion in cash. but they are not investing in expansion and new jobs. they don't think consumers out there are interested or eager or willing to buy. the median wage cons to drop. the workweek continues to contract. consumers are not in the mood to buy much. consumer sentiment is down. although i would like to look for every silver lining that is possible out there, this is not a particularly encouraging jobs report. >> l so let's take a look at this live picture of president obama who will speaking later today at a plant in minneapolis. this is a battleground state that he appear ls to be benefitting in, at least from an economic factor there. let's talk about the importance this will present on a day like today for the campaign. it will be a battle on both

sides on how to talk to the american public about what this means for the future of the country. >> in 2007 i was extraordinarily pessimistic about the economy. last few years have been pretty good. the federal reserve did a great job saving us. right now, i'm turning a little less opt nisic because these numbers are getting worse. there are regions of the country doing very, very well. michigan is doing quite well. they're selling autos at a 14 million unit annual rate. it was at 9 million at the trough of the recession. things have gotten better. they're not good enough to really drive the economy in sustainable fashion. so i would expect given the big drop in interest rates, it will send a message to the fed to do more for the economy. >> gentlemen, thanks for your time. we are just moments away from an

apeerngs thpearance that could g boost to barrett's campaign. four days to go before a recall election that could send ripple effects through the state government's across our nation. when we talk about this, wisconsin democratic state senator chris larsen is on the ground in milwaukee. he joins us with more insight. it's good to have you here. the crowds as we see. how important is it to have a major figure in your party rallying the troops before tuesday's election? >> i think it brings a lot of attention to how important this election is. this is going to be the last major election before the presidential election in november. all eyes of wisconsin is on this. all eyes across the country are on this. i plan on walking over there right after this. >> as you say all eyes on the

country. president obama will be in minnesota, as i mentioned, later this hour. but he'll be in illinois for a fund-raiser. two neighboring states. but not putting foot on the soil. what's your reaction? >> i think obama for america, his organizing group has been stepping up and helping organize people in wisconsin. as much as people on the left want obama in the state, people on the the right want them here more. he wants to make the fight about obama. this is a wisconsin fight. it's about what scott walker has done to divide the state. how far he has gone to go after the middle class. that's what is at stake here, are those issues. there's a lot of hey being made about that. >> when you say obama for america is stepping up, do you mean they weren't showing much presence prior to this? do you think their arrival on the scene now is enough?

>> they've been here throughout the state. they've had their offices open for the last few months. they've been realizing like the smaller campaigns for state and local office that this is the only thing that people wan to talk about in wisconsin is the recall of scott walker. and so they've shifted their attention to making sure we win that, that we're able to turn our state around, bring wisconsin back together again, and then they can move forward with the presidential race, as all the campaigns can. before that happens, i mean, this election is eclipsing everything else going on in our state right now. >> wisconsin state senator chris larson, sir, thank you for your time this morning. i appreciate it. just a quick programming note for everybody. milwaukee mayor tom barrett will be on politics nation with the reverend al sharpton. that's tonight here on msnbc. >> i did an awful, awful lie that was wrong. and there is no one else responsible for my sins. >> john edwards admits he's

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and if i want to find the person who should be held accountable for my sins, honestly, i don't have to go any further than the mirror. it's me. it is me and me alone. >> that was john edwards speaking on the courtroom house after a jury acquitted him on one count deadlock on five others. at issue is whether he misused campaign funds to hide an affair with rooi yeielle hunter and th love child. three of the jurors join me now. it's great to have all three of you here with me. and by a show of hands, did you think that john edwards was guilty, at least on some of these charges. >> yes. what went on what u you were not

able to get consensus. >> i think there was definite agreement on certain elements of the guilt. but the evidence really had to be produced, and the government had to do the job of producing not only the evidence but credible testimony that would support the evidence, and that's where i believe they broke down. >> when we talk about credible testimony and the star witness, he was the edwards aid who wrote the book, the politician. had full immunity for all of this. how did he appear to you? how did he come across to you from the stand? >> that was one of the things we discussed a lot in the jury room was, was andrew young credible? that was one thing we said we could not trust his testimony. he was not a credible witness. >> for you, how did andrew young, the star witness come across? >> the same. he didn't come through as truth

f f ful, honest and sincere. i think there were al tier yor mo -- the judge sent you back in. it stumped people on the tv side of things not noing what was going on. when you went back in, what happened in that time span? >> first of all, with the confusion it was clear that it had happened. during the moment, we had a piece of paper to say guilty or not guilty. there wasn't another option. that's what we had agreed. we had concluded on the deliberations. once we did that. we went to the judge. the judge asked us to assess everything. we did a reassessment. we had planned for that, for all intensive purposes, we knew it was time to go back to the judge. >> john edwards is an admitted lair. as you saw, he was speaking on

the courthouse steps talking about his sins. he also talks about the people who supported him and people he says he loves. >> then finally my precious quinn. who i love more than any of you could ever imagine. and i am so close to and so, so grateful for. >> cindy, i want to start with you. did you have preconceived notions about what it would be like hearing this testimony and how did it match up once you were inside the courtroom as a juror? >> i did not have preconceived notions. it was -- i guess you could say i was hoping that john edwards was going to take the stand so we could hear his testimony. and hear his side of the story. unfortunately, he did not take the stand. >> so do you think that john edwards is a bad guy after

hearing all the salacious things that you heard on theed in of that courtroom. it was really like a soap opera playing out to learn the inside detailsover what went on during a rough and traumatic time in the edwards' family lives? >> very much. i'm sure it was tough. no, i do not think he was a bad guy. i think he made some awful decisions. and choices, i do. >> last but not least, for the amount of time and money spent on this, do you think it was a waste of money to go after this? >> i don't. >> you don't? >> i do. >> i don't. >> you don't. all right. at least we're not deadlocked on that. i hope the three of you get a chance to enjoy some time in the city and enjoy get back to your families full time. so up next, bullied to death. a 12-year-old boy commits suicide. his parents and other students

say bullies are to blame. a 7-year-old also took his own life as well. why are so many young kids an enthusiastic crowd waiting to hear from president bill and the democrat that is challenging scott walker in tuesday's recall election. we'll take you there live after this. piro.obert over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents.

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actually committing suicide. >> and in just the past week alone there was two very young boys who have committed suicide. the 12-year-old that you just mentioned. also a 7-year-old boy in detroit. when 12-year-old joe morales did not come home. she went looking for him. she found his body in the bathroom of the apartment where he lived. the fifth grader hanged hymn after constant bullying. joel was just 4'9", classmates taunted him about his height, about his intelligence, and would bring up his father who died when the boy was 4. it got so bad he left one elementary school for another, but the bullying didn't stop. meanwhile, in detroit, detroit, michigan, police are looking for answers after a 7-year-old boy there was found hanging from his bunk bed. the boy's mother broke through a locked door and found the body.

police fell the affiliate in detroit that that boy was also being bullied. for young people between the ages of 15 and 24, suicide is the third leading cause of death in this country. but these two cases involve the really young. a 12-year-old boy and a 7-year-old boy. we wanted to find out how uncommon these suicides are. we did some digging and discovered they were exceptionally rare. the national institute of mental health says for every 100,000 children between 10 and 14, less than one commits suicide. for adolescents, it's just under seven. both case, albeit rare, highlight something we need to continue to talk about in this country. the sometimes deadly effects of constant bullying. >> >> it's really so sad.

we talk about this in a meeting. we talk about the coverage. does that foster a dialogue. does it create ideas for people. one thing we support is the trevor project. if there are parents or kids that are concerned, check out the trevor project online. ravi is now behind bars. he apologized in a statement for the very first time after the trial. clementi's parents say it was no apology but a public relations piece. clementi committed suicide days after he published the webcam video online. we want to take a look back at what is happening on wall street. the big breaking news story we were following. the dow jones is down triple digits after the jobs report from may. where the jobs? we talk to someone who may know. plus, dueling campaign stunts. the obama campaign attacks

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week? joining me for today's political power panel, our communications director for john edwards, 2008 presidential campaign, and former chief of staff for senator joe mansion. susan delpersio, former staffer to rudy giuliani. and reid wilson, editor and chief of the hot line.

romney was asked about the hecklers. he was asked about what did to david axlerod. take a look at his response. >> many of the events i go to, there are large groups of obama supporters there heckling me. and some point what sells for the goose, sells for the gander. if they're going to heckle ugh, we're not going to play by different rules. >> i come from some whitty and stiff white folk, and i've never heard that before. but the boston herald writes after watching the campaign deliver a wuchb-t one-two punch i'll have what he's having. so are republicans really celebrating the scrap pi style, unapologetic style? and what the romney camp is

going to get ahead? >> at some level they're happy to see romney can bring it if he has to. some people had to say i was good as can get. >> the opposite seems to be true for the president. there's been a negative reaction when he gets down. can the candidate of hope not take this as what's good for the goose approach? like romney says. >> one of the things we saw in 2008 is in this hope and change campaign, his campaign ran more negative advertising than he has run in history. we're going toe see that again. this is the way he has to run the campaign. when his approval ratings aren't above 50%. most americans disapprove of the way he's handling the economy.

he has to run the negative campaigns. he that has to get into the nitty-gritty and talk about the record on bain capital. essentially, this is how he's forced to run a campaign. >> i know you've helped run a few campaigns. bill clinton will be on the stump for wisconsin. basically pulling what's being referred to as a corey booker. veering off message and calling bane sterling. how hard is it to keep the campaign on message? especially when bill clinton is going to take to the air waves and say he had a good business record. it usually leads to you pulling hair out. i think there's a problem with the obama campaign. when you step back and think about this message about private equity versus the president's

approach these are very two different visions about the role of government can and should be. this notion doesn't fly for one simple reason. you don't look at it that way. you invest in government in the future. you wouldn't have the hoover dam. you wouldn't have the interstate highway system. this is not about investing for the quarter. but at the end of the day, for whatever reason, some of the surrogates aren't getting the message across as clear and crisp as they could. >> let's ask about what romney said asking to grade the president's first term. take a listen to this. >> what grade would you give president obama? >> oh, an "f." >> across the board? >> across the board. >> despite the killing of osama bin laden. >> i look at what's happening in the middle east. it's hardly a success. >> didn't give him credit for

killing zum bin laden, something that everybody in the country would log the president for. >> and i do. i think the problem is whn you're a candidate in this news cycle and we see how words are sparse between -- you know, whether it's the folks talking about bain capital, for the president, and then the opposite will happen. if a candidate gives any gracious -- great for his opponent. >> so the obama for america people respect going to be running? you don't think? >> definitely not. >> you serve as communications director for john edwards during the '08 campaign for presidency. he spoke about his mistrial touds the courthouse. take a listen to this. >> i don't think god's through with me. i really believe he thinks there's still some good things i can do. >> chris, a lot of people look at that as maybe a way for

edwards to reenter the political arena. do you think he could rehabilitate his political career out of this? or is this a done deal? the final nail in the coffin? >> you know, when i went to work for senator edwards, i had a 6-month-old. i left my wife alone. you do this because you believe in someone. he lied to me. he lied to supporters. . he lied to the american people again and again. it's not going to happen, at least in my opinion. i don't think it's something he should attempt. >> my thanks to all three of you. thank so much. so that sugary drink debate has made ilts way to washington. he weighed in on the 16-ounce solution. take a look. >> i like mayor bloomberg. but are you kidding me? come on. don't we have bigger issues to deal with than the size of a

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welcome back, everybody. we're still keeping a close eye on milwaukee, wisconsin, for you. waiting for former president bill clinton to hold a rally with tom barrett. that's the mayor speaking right now. the democratic challenger taking on scott walker in tuesday's recall election. the crowd, though, is getting pretty fired up.

so are the speakers. take a look at this. >> it really hit personal when he proposed the cuts to medicare. i would have to kick one of my children off my plan. as a mother, that's a decision that i'm not going to make. that's why i have two words in regards to scott walker, and then i'll shut up. you're fired! >> scott walker, you got to go, baby. hit the road, scott. and don't you come back no more, no more ♪ >> as soon as bill clinton takes the stage, we're going to bring you back to milwaukee. melissa harris perry here is with me in studio. and you're watching this. i want to get your reaction to how they're getting the crowds fired up. bill clinton is coming in. obviously bringing to ining out guns to get the support. it doesn't look so hot. >> right now if i had to call the race right now, scott walker

is in a very good position. part of it is because the democratic party made the decision not to come in to back barrett. it's interesting to see bill clinton, sort of a figure head of the party coming in with the strength of his voice. but he didn't have the resources you might have expected the democratic party to put behind him. >> does this look like an act of desperation for the people worried about the fact that if walker wins this, it's really a validation of the strong armed policies that he's trying to insist for wisconsin and what got him into the recall mess in the first place. >> i never think a recall election can operate in the same way. recalls are so different. in part because you have to do so much organizing to get the recall to happen that a lot of times you lose the energy on the back end when you have to get voters in the polls. i don't think bill clinton looks

like desperation. it looks like an attempt to final he get the last little push the democrats in wisconsin are going to need. >> when we talk about the sound bites that we have, after the live image. and one woman saying she has to take one of her children off her health care plan. does this e reinforce the conversation about what it's like for the war on women? when you pull back for the wide shot, what it means for women around the country, and what it means for them if it happens. >> and issues of health care reform, issues of union reform. issues of public employees. we talk about the big bad unions. but as soon as it's a mother who is talking about her children, who is talking about the real choices she has to make at the the kitchen table, then it becomes real in a way that is effective for those who are supporters of the american spoeshl safety net.

>> we see the crowd is going wild. the president has just arrived on the scene. i'm going to ask you real quickly. maybe we don't have time. let's listen to bill clinton addressing the crowd. >> so folks, just in case you think this was set up by somebody else, these are the notes i wrote about what i wanted to say to you. the great thing about not being president is you can say whatever you want. nobody has to care, but you can say it. it's great to be here. great to be back in milwaukee and wisconsin. i want to thank my long time friend senator cole for being here and representing tom. representative moore, thank you for your service in the congress. you know, this -- i was thinking

about all my wisconsin memories today. 20 years ago -- it's hard to believe, when i ran for president i remember being on a little farm with an irish farmer with nine children singing danny boy to me. i remember bringing the chancellor of germany to milwaukee and having milwaukee school children sing a song to him in german. and when i drove through the city today, i got here early. stoeped at a coffee shop, and looked around at all the changes that were made. and this is what i want to say to you. this is about what's best for you and your kids and your future. but it's also about america. you know, for 100 years now, people have looked to wisconsin from all over this country.

to see a place of small towns and sigh bravibrant cities. to see a place of formers and factory workers and small business people. to see a place where there were vigorous political debates, closely held elections, and people got together to figure out what the heck to do. and now they look at wisconsin and they see meerk's battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and people who want to divide and conquer. people who know that creative cooperation is working in america, and people who want constant conflict. and here's what i want to tell you. tom was kind enough to say this in the introduction. i think i know about what would bring america back.

what would bring economic recovery. what would enable us to have broadly shared prosperity. if you go anywhere in america today, believe it or not, a lot of places are already back. they all have one thing in common. they're dramatically different. they all have one thing in common. they are involved in creative cooperation, not constant conflict. in chicago when rahm emanuel left the president's office and went home and became mayor of chicago and he realized that the republicans were not going to pass the infrastructure bank, which allows private and public capital to put america back to work to modernize our country, he created one in chicago. and i went there for the announce m. republicans thought washington was nuts for not passing what used to be a bipartisan bill.

why? the same tea party philosophy of the far right that has dominated politics for the 2010 election is nominating here. so they work with the mayor of chicago. in jacksonville, a young man who worked for me and hillary is now the mayor. every republican businessman and banker was saying this is the only guy who ever got us together. business, labor, government. we're going to rebuild the city and take it to new heights. san diego has a republican mayor. more scientists than any other city in america. you need computers. the head of the biggest computer companying is one of the most prominent democrats. they're all working together,

and they're booming. cooperation works. constant conflict is a dead bang loser, and you need to get rid of it. so. let's just look at the choice. who has the best record on dealing with this budget crisis? tom barrett. you just heard him say, he dealt with the biggest budget cuts in the city of milwaukee in history the state. how did he do it? with shared sacrifice, shared responsibilities, not breaking the union. >> we've been listening to president bill clinton addressing the clouds. the mayor, tom bairtd was speaking first. this is all ahead of tuesday's recall election on governor scott walker. melissa harris-perry, you've been watching.

raptured by president bill clinton? >> he's so good. >> coming up there with handwritten notes. really not looking down at them. but taking on the crowd to talk about his reflections on what it was like to campaign with him for president. his towns of wisconsin coming together to talk about this creative cooperation instead of constant conflict. it's working. i mean, the crowd is eating it up. >> absolutely. and linking it to all these other stories, linking it to another midwestern city in chicago, linking it to a republican-controlled mayority in san diego and saying look, the issue here is our broad american identity and we need you, wisconsin, to make some choices here that are going to sort of lead the whole country. it's what you were saying before the president began to speak, that this is about a repudiation of a certain set of policies for the nation. i don't think it tells us empirically what will happen in the fall of 2012, but i certainly know that if, in fact,

tom barrett were able to pull out a win and particularly if that win came from behind this speech by clinton, he's going to be the rainmaker walking all around the country doing this. >> you the melissa harris-perry each sat the and sunday at 10:00 p.m. >> thanks. as a home, there are things i'm supposed to do. like, keep one of these over your head. well, i wasn't "supposed" to need flood insurance, but i have it. fred over here chose not to have it. ♪ me, i've got a plan. fred he uh... fred what is your plan? do i look like i have a plan? not really. [ female announcer ] only flood insurance covers floods. for a free brochure, call the number on your screen.

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welcome back. two live events we're keeping our eye on for you on your left-hand side, there's former president bill clinton speaking to a crowd there in milwaukee, wisconsin. he was introduced by the mayor there, tom barrett. is he the democratic challenger of governor scott walker in tuesday's recall election. he has the crowd in raptures there. then live pictures from minneapolis, st. paul, where the president is expected to talk shortly at the tour the honeywell head quarters there. at 1:10, the president will urge congress to pass the veterans job corps legislation. we'll have live coverage of that right here on msnbc.

that's going to wrap things up for me this friday. i'll see you monday 11:00 a.m. eastern. follow me on twitter @thomasaroberts. "now with alex wagner" standing by in the studio. what you got coming up? now you're coming on the heels of president clinton and then president obama going to be at honeywell. >> i love it when president clinton opens for me oop he's my opener of choice. >> it gets your southern draw out. >> doggone it, it does. we're going to be bringing you more of president clinton's remarks and talking about a rude awakening. jobs numbers are not quite what team obama wanted to wake up to, but is it all bad news for november? president obama will be in minnesota in an hour to talk about his to do list but did congress get the memo? bill clinton is back on center stage with comments on bain and his trip to wisconsin. we'll discuss the upsides and down sides of having bubba in your corner when "now" starts in a mere 180 seconds.

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overheard at 16 pennsylvania avenue, 1600 pennsylvania avenue this morning at about 8:31:00 a.m., oh, man. it is friday, june 1st, and this is "now." >> joining me today, radio host kurt andersen who is author of true believers, forth coming in july. msnbc political analyst richard wolffe, "the new york times" jodi kantor and msnbc contributor jonathan capehart of the "washington post." if you're president obama or mitt romney, there are five dates to circle on your calendar. july 6th, august 3rd, september 7th, october 5th and november 2nd. those are the five remaining monthly jobs reports from the department of labor. and if they're anything like

today's assessment which found that just 69,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate increased it could be a tough road for president obama. for republicans, the script writes itself. >> this is terrible. i mean these job numbers are pathetic. i think it just really cries out for us to actually try something new now. >> i'm not going to go down the path of i'm not an economist. all i can say is that they would have taken our advice and worked with us, the economy would be better. more americans would have better jobs, more americans would have better incomes. that's clear to us. >> i guess the only news this morning is that 3 1/2 years lauter, the president's policies are still failing. >> richard wolffe, #from the republican twitter feed is probably i told you so. or i sort of muscling glee. i don't know how you put that in a #. they are certainly dancing all over this. how bad is it for the president right